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We live in a world where more than ever people are battling with the bulge, obesity is now a epidemic. A lot of people look for the simple solution to ditching the fat, crash diet, fad diets, diet groups, calorie counting, coloured days I could go on for a long time. Most people who you speak to have tried everything but still they end up a square one – the reason why? Because nothing really changes, and if nothing changes, then nothing changes.

There is no ‘quick fix’ no ‘magic slim pill’ it comes down to a few simple factors, correct lifestyle, correct nutrition and exercise. More importantly in that order, remember you can’t out train a bad lifestyle and nutrition!!

As most of us go through life jumping from these yo-yo diets, we spare little consideration for the effect this form of weight loss has on our health, many health experts will now say that fad dieting places stresses on your body and the repeated stress of losing and gaining weight maybe as bad for your health as being overweight as there are many serious issues that surround these fad diets as they do not address internal health and nutritional rejuvenation!

FAD DIETS vs NUTRITIONAL CLEANSING.

Fad Diets - Often nutrient deficient, quick fix yo-yo effect, continued cravings, nutritionally restrictive, focused ONLY on weight loss not fat loss. They do not encourage good eating habits which cause stress to the body.

Nutritional Cleansing - Gives the body more nutrient rich foods, good protein, fats, correct carbs & minerals. Creates a long term lifestyle that promotes good internal health, a healthy body can’t store fat! Allows you to gain weight management control and the brain to control cravings. Nutrient cleansing floods the body with high- grade nutrients. By cleansing correctly you are able to focus on good quality of life and longevity.

Instead of simply being caught up with just weight loss we should be looking at overall internal health which is about balancing and fueling the body correctly, this involves a change in lifestyle. True, long term fat loss is achievable if you practice fueling the body with the right nutrients, staying hydrated, engaging in exercise and helping the body rid of unwanted impurities! The body needs internal hormone balance and nutrient fuel to maintain normal balanced blood glucose levels.

To conclude by cleansing the body of the unwanted impurities then you will be able to ditch the unwanted fat, for more information on this and a programme that will get you blasting the unwanted fat visit  http://www.facebook.com/pages/28-day-FAP/328311570513775

When I first contacted Matt in September my email read something like “Help!”. I had let some bad habits creep in and at that time I was not only at my heaviest weight ever, but, was also feeling tired and sluggish all the time with little energy. After meeting Matt I felt re assured that working with him would put me back on track as he takes a holistic approach to health and fitness, taking in to account my lifestyle including what I eat and drink, but also sleep and exercise.

I’ve now been following his advice for 6 weeks and I feel amazing! His detailed planning may seem unconventional and at times quite radical, but I have never felt better. I sleep soundly every night, have boundless energy, l’m  less stressed and have so far lost 18lbs and 9% body fat and am over half way to my goal. My friends tell me how great I look and getting back in to clothes which haven’t fitted me for some time is a brilliant feeling.

I can’t recommend Matt highly enough.  He had totally transformed my attitude to heath and the affect food has on my overall wellbeing. I will never go back to the old habits as I have developed new ones which are far better for me.

Cathie (November 2011)

Fat Attack

Hey guys,

Matt here from bSimply Health & Fitness Ipswich & Suffolk’s leading fat loss expert here to tell you about our new 28 day fat attack programme!

Now this is not a weight loss programme it is a FAT loss programme want to make this clear from the start. We are attacking your bodyfat right from the start on this by going through the detox process and working with your bodies hormones.

There is exercise built into the programme and this will help, but your lifestyle and nutrition is KEY

Briefly How the programme works.

• Simply drop us an email stating that you are interested we will then forward you more details to read through to make sure you understand how the 28 days work, from this point you can then decide if it is right for you, as it won’t suit everybody

• Each week we forward you through the programme for those 7 days, no more as we want to take this 1 day at a time so not to confuse you and keep the focus

• Daily email & online guidance and support to answer any questions  as you take the journey through the programme to ditching the fat

• We will electronically post the science behind the programme to you as we go through each stage so that not are only ditching the fat your learning about how the programme works in order for the fat to not return!

• This one is important, this is not a ‘fad diet’ or ‘weight loss group’ this is a fast, brutal attack on your unwanted body fat! Working with your body, to achieve  hormone control, in particular cortisol, re-balance the body and clear the toxins by way of detox and help vital organs play a part in your fat loss the liver in particular, again we will explain the science on these areas as you go

The programme is designed to give you a step by step guide to ditching body fat, it can become a stable lifestyle with the changes you make so at the end of the 28 days we can support you with the decisions and goals you will have then, help look at how to keep that fat off now the hard work has been done and the ways of a 80/20% lifestyle!

If you stick to this programme we can 100% guarantee you will DROP body fat. We have had other clients go through this programme already and they have ALL had success, dress sizes dropped all over the place.

There will be points that this is tough, seems samey, remember if you do it, your are doing it for your ideal body!  Not always to please the taste buds, having said that good nutrition and some imagination with food can make it very enjoyable

You need to remember that you have tried other ‘diets’ & programmes before which haven’t worked or you wouldn’t be doing this one, sounds harsh but true. The point we are making is that you can’t adjust this programme if you start changing things it doesn’t become this programme it becomes yours and that WON’T work!

If this sounds like something that you want to learn more about and you are at the point of no more excuses then get in touch with us and make the most of the short term discounted offer

Cheers for taking the time to read this

Matt

I wanted to write about my recent experiences with trialling intermittent fasting. What you’ll learn is the specific program/diet that I have been using has allowed me to drop significant amounts of body fat without losing muscle mass, strength, fitness levels or vitality. Keep in mind that this is written from a body composition and health perspective. So in other words, can intermittent fasting help to achieve greater health, fat loss and/or muscle gain?

So with that said, I’ve personally experienced major fat loss and muscle gaining results with an intermittent fasting nutrition plan. Initially, I was able to achieve visible fat loss, and measurable strength gains simultaneously. This surprised me. However, since then I’ve found intermittent fasting to be a sustainable, and even enjoyable, system that has helped me optimize my body to be more athletic, aesthetic, stronger and healthy. Whether you’re trying to gain muscle, lose fat, or just be a healthier resilient person, intermittent fasting might be a lifestyle habit that makes sense for you.

A Quick Word on Body Types

We all have different body types these are the cards we are dealt with and you can’t change that (not 100% anyhow) If you struggle with gaining fat and losing weight Intermittent Fasting is probably one of the best thing you’ll ever learn about. So in other words, if you’re naturally have endomorphic tendencies (like I do), Intermittent Fasting is a great option for dropping body fat (I would argue the best option actually). However, if you’re someone who is naturally skinny and you have an extremely hard time with gaining weight and even bodyfat (ectomorphic tendencies), intermittent fasting probably isn’t for you.

My Experiences

For the past 2 months I’ve been following an intermittent fasting program, within my nutrition plan along with carbohydrate cycling (this is not refined carbs, bread/pasta etc) I had heard about intermittent fasting from a fellow fitpro and decided to read about it in a few articles and do some more research, I was a bit dubious at first after all, doesn’t eating inspire metabolism? Aren’t you suppose to eat many small meals throughout the day or ELSE you’ll feel tired and lose all your hard earned muscle that took  hours of hard work? Well the reality is all those old conceptions are myths and have no scientific backing. It took bumping into a few sites and learning from a few sources for me to start to question all the ‘gym bro knowledge’ that I’ve heard for years to give it a try. After only 2 weeks, I could already tell that I’d likely be committed to this way of eating for life. I’ve already seen fat loss results while also gaining strength. This indicates a REAL body re-composition where I’m gaining muscle while simultaneously losing fat. I’m feeling more energy (especially in the mornings when I’m fasting). And there’s something within my intuition that tells me this is a more healthful & natural way of living.

Why Intermittent Fasting Makes Sense to Me

When evaluating how our bodies evolved, it’s seems reasonable to think that the human body was in a fasted state a lot of the time, maybe not by choice, but by circumstance. Food is scarce in the wild. There is no tupperware, no microwaves, no packaged convenience foods, and no take-away. Hunting and gathering takes effort (aka exercise), and often coming up empty handed and remaining hungry would be unavoidable. This is why the human body is extremely effective at storing fat (I know from experience). In other words, in nature food was probably scarce for most of human evolution. Human beings definitely weren’t pigging out continuously, and most likely the feeding times were irregular and erratic. So what is the point? Replicating conditions of how the human body evolved will likely provide health and wellness. So my point is that the human body evolved to have times of being fasted.

Fed vs. Fasted

Stubborn Fat

If you look at modern society, we rarely let ourselves go fasted. I was under the impression that it was a muscle building sin to not have something in the stomach at all times and that you had to eat to fire the metabolism! I don’t know what it’s like to be on steroids, I have never done them, but it seems like most of the ‘never let yourself go hungry’ preaching is coming from the bodybuilding community (the gurus being pumped up). At one point I listened to this argument and way of living. However, it just didn’t work for me I found it nearly impossible to actually lose fat, especially the stubborn navel fat. I felt like crap a lot of the time (especially in the afternoons), I was drowsy and un-alert, and looking back on it now I just didn’t feel vibrant and healthy.

Even if you’re not into fitness and bodybuilding, the average person is in a ‘fed’ state continuously throughout their day and lives. Not only are we eating stuff our bodies weren’t designed for, we are eating too much of it, and too often. It now makes sense to me that keeping your body in a ‘fed’ state continuously is going against our evolutionary programming and could be one of the causal factors behind diseases of civilization as well as the obesity epidemic we are fast approaching!

Intermittent Fasting Scientific Backing

There is an increasing amount of studies being done on fasting. The results are starting to compile and short-term intermittent fasting has been found to have the following health and fitness benefits:

• Decreased body fat & body weight

• Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass (you won’t lose muscle in other words)

• Decreased blood glucose levels

• Decreased insulin levels & increased insulin sensitivity (avoiding diabetes and obesity is a good thing right?!)

• Increased lipolysis & fat oxidation (which leads to ABS )

• Increased Uncoupling Protein 3 mRNA

• Increased norepinephrine & epinephrine levels (more energy)

• Increased Glucagon levels

• Increased growth hormone levels

How to Implement Intermittent Fasting as a Lifestyle

So how can you make intermittent fasting into a lifestyle/system/habit? Well the good news is there aren’t any hard ‘rules,’ only suggestions and principles. The principle is simple: let yourself go hungry occasionally. Some people (such as the author of one of the books I recommend called “Eat Stop Eat“) recommend fasting once or twice a week for 24 hrs. Personally, I’ve followed a program of 16 hour fasts twice a week and one 24hr fast once per week, and not one day after another. For me, this made sense and worked well with my nutrition plan.

Like I just mentioned, the whole ’3 square meals’ or ’6 small meals’ and ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ fads are conventional wisdom crap that has been repeated so much that we assume it to be correct. The only problem is it doesn’t have any basis in nature or current research.

So basically I have my last meal at around 8pm. I skip breakfast, do my workout routine with weights at before midday in a fasted state (taking BCAA’s before my workout & after), and have my largest meal of the day at around 1pm. From 1pm to 8 pm I follow the nutritional principles in my programme (I’m absolutely NOT perfect and this is what has worked for me. Perfection isn’t the goal, excellence is.)

Keep Learning about Intermittent Fasting!

I’ve found that one of the most motivating forces fully understanding the implications of certain actions.

In other words, if you ‘sort of’ understand how intermittent fasting has potential to help you in your fat loss goals, it’s likely that you won’t be fully motivated to give it a fair chance and reap the full benefits of it.

In order to make sure you fully understand the implications of intermittent fasting I HIGHLY recommend you continue to study this lifestyle in detail. Make it a challenge for yourself to gain a detailed understanding of how intermittent fasting works and how you can really implement it into your life. Here are a couple resources you should check out or if you have any questions then just drop me a line.

Brad Pilion

-          www.leangains.com

-          Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon (available from Amazon)

Matt

Dr William David

William Davis, a preventive cardiologist who practises in Milwaukee, Wis., argues in his new book Wheat Belly that wheat is bad for your health—so bad that it should carry a surgeon general’s warning.

Q: You say the crux of the problem with wheat is that the stuff we eat today has been genetically altered. How is it different than the wheat our grandparents ate?

A: First of all, it looks different. If you held up a conventional wheat plant from 50 years ago against a modern, high-yield dwarf wheat plant, you would see that today’s plant is about 2½ feet shorter. It’s stockier, so it can support a much heavier seedbed, and it grows much faster. The great irony here is that the term “genetic modification” refers to the actual insertion or deletion of a gene, and that’s not what’s happened with wheat. Instead, the plant has been hybridized and crossbred to make it resistant to drought and fungi, and to vastly increase yield per acre. Agricultural geneticists have shown that wheat proteins undergo structural change with hybridization, and that the hybrid contains proteins that are found in neither parent plant. Now, it shouldn’t be the case that every single new agricultural hybrid has to be checked and tested, that would be absurd. But we’ve created thousands of what I call Frankengrains over the past 50 years, using pretty extreme techniques, and their safety for human consumption has never been tested or even questioned.

Q: What extreme techniques are you talking about?

A: New strains have been generated using what the wheat industry proudly insists are “traditional breeding techniques,” though they involve processes like gamma irradiation and toxins such as sodium azide. The poison control people will tell you that if someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn’t try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.

Q: Can’t you just get around any potential health concerns by buying products made with organically grown wheat?

A: No, because the actual wheat plant itself is the same. It’s almost as if we’ve put lipstick on this thing and called it organic and therefore good, when the truth is, it’s really hardly any better at all.

Q: A lot of us have switched to whole wheat products because we’ve been told complex carbohydrates are heart healthy and good for us. Are you saying that’s not true?

A: The research that indicates whole grains are healthy is all conducted the same way: white flour is replaced with whole wheat flour, which, no question, is better for you. But taking something bad and replacing it with something less bad is not the same as research that directly compares what happens to health and weight when you eliminate wheat altogether. There’s a presumption that consuming a whole bunch of the less bad thing must be good for you, and that’s just flawed logic. An analogy would be to say that filtered cigarettes are less bad for you than unfiltered cigarettes, and therefore, a whole bunch of filtered cigarettes is good for you. It makes no sense. But that is the rationale for increasing our consumption of whole grains, and that combined with the changes in wheat itself is a recipe for creating a lot of fat and unhealthy people.

Q: How does wheat make us fat, exactly?

A: It contains amylopectin A, which is more efficiently converted to blood sugar than just about any other carbohydrate, including table sugar. In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you’re hungry. So let’s say you have an English muffin for breakfast. Two hours later you’re starving, so you have a handful of crackers, and then some potato chips, and your blood sugar rises again. That cycle of highs and lows just keeps going throughout the day, so you’re constantly feeling hungry and constantly eating. Dieticians have responded to this by advising that we graze throughout the day, which is just nonsense. If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you’re no longer hungry between meals because you’ve stopped that cycle. You’ve cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I’ve seen this with thousands of patients.

Q: But I’m not overweight and I exercise regularly. So why would eating whole wheat bread be bad for me?

A: You can trigger effects you don’t perceive. Small low-density lipoprotein [LDL] particles form when you’re eating lots of carbohydrates, and they are responsible for atherosclerotic plaque, which in turn triggers heart disease and stroke. So even if you’re a slender, vigorous, healthy person, you’re still triggering the formation of small LDL particles. And second, carbohydrates increase your blood sugars, which cause this process of glycation, that is, the glucose modification of proteins. If I glycate the proteins in my eyes, I get cataracts. If I glycate the cartilage of my knees and hips, I get arthritis. If I glycate small LDL, I’m more prone to atherosclerosis. So it’s a twofold effect. And if you don’t start out slender and keep eating that fair trade, organically grown whole wheat bread that sounds so healthy, you’re repeatedly triggering high blood sugars and are going to wind up with more visceral fat. This isn’t just what I call the wheat belly that you can see, flopping over your belt, but the fat around your internal organs. And as visceral fat accumulates, you risk responses like diabetes and heart disease.

Q: You seem to be saying that aside from anything else, wheat is essentially the single cause of the obesity epidemic.

A: I wouldn’t go so far as to say that all obesity is due to wheat. There are kids, of course, who drink Coca-Cola and sit in front of video games for many hours a day. But I’m speaking to the relatively health-minded people who think they’re doing the right thing by limiting fat consumption and eating more whole grains, and there’s a clear subset of people who are doing that and gaining weight and don’t understand why. It causes tremendous heartache. They come into my office and say, “I exercise five times a week, I’ve cut my fat intake, I watch portion size and eat my whole grains—but I’ve gone up three dress sizes.”

Q: You write that wheat is “addictive,” but does it really meet the criteria for addiction we’d use when talking about, say, drugs?

A: National Institutes of Health researchers showed that gluten-derived polypeptides can cross into the brain and bind to the brain’s opiate receptors. So you get this mild euphoria after eating a product made with whole wheat. You can block that effect [in lab animals] by administering the drug naloxone. This is the same drug that you’re given if you’re a heroin addict; it’s an opiate blocker. About three months ago, a drug company applied to the FDA to commercialize naltrexone, which is an oral equivalent to naloxone. And it works, apparently, it blocks the pleasurable feelings you get from eating wheat so people stop eating so much. In clinical trials, people lost about 22.4 lb. in the first six months. Why, if you’re not a drug addict, do you need something like that? And of course there’s another option, which is to cut wheat out of your diet. However, and this is another argument for classifying wheat as addictive, people can experience some pretty unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.

Q: For how long?

A: Generally about five days. And once you’re through withdrawal, your cravings subside, your calorie intake decreases and your alertness and overall health improve.

Q: So do you believe food manufacturers are putting wheat into more and more food products, not just bread and crackers, because it’s addictive and stimulates appetite?

A: These are not stupid people. The research showing that wheat stimulates appetite didn’t come from some little alternative health practitioner. It comes from the NIH. It stretches credibility to believe they have no awareness of the evidence.

Q: If there’s all this evidence, why does the government encourage us to “eat healthy” by upping our consumption of whole grains?

A: That’s the million-dollar question. Wheat is so linked to human habit, it’s 20 per cent of all calories consumed by humans worldwide, that I think there was the presumption, “Gee, humans have consumed this for thousands of years, so what’s the problem?” I don’t think the misguided advice to eat more whole grains came from evil intentions.

Q: Wheat is a huge industry. What do you say to all the farmers who grow it?

A: To me, it’s reminiscent of tobacco farmers, who would say, “Look, I’m just trying to make a living and feed my family.” Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people. It could turn out that if we wind back the clock 100 or 1,000 years, and resurrect einkorn or some of the heritage forms of wheat, maybe that would be a solution. Of course, wheat products would then be much more expensive. Instead of a $4 loaf of bread, maybe it would cost $7 when grown with a heritage wheat. To me, it’s similar to free range eggs or organic beef 20 years ago. Everyone said, “No one will pay a premium for those.” But people do. And when it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it’s destructive.

The Heart

Your heart is an amazing organ. It beats around 70 times a minute, 100,800 times per day and over 2.76 billion times during an average lifespan!!

However more than one-third of deaths in the UK result from heart & circulatory disease – that’s 200,000 deaths a year!! So you stand a one in three chance of dying from heart or circulatory disease and the main killer is a heart attack. So umber one rule we need to go out of our way to protect this vital organ. There are a number of risk factors that YOU can address to reduce the chance of heart problems……

Age: As you get older your risk of getting a heart attack increases

Sex: Heart attacks occur more commonly in men, but women are starting to catch up because of their increasingly unhealthy lifestyles!

You can’t do much about these factors, but once you’re over 40 you should be looking at the other factors that you can control to help reduce your risk

Smoking: Cigarette smoke thickens the blood, increasing the risk of it clotting, especially in the narrow coronary arteries

Poor Diet: I will come on to cholesterol another day, but I am talking about all the processed, packaged, convenience and ready-meals that we eat. These are poor value foods that are high in dangerous ingredients like salt, sugar & bad fats. Eat less of these and go back to nature, eat clean fresh foods without packaging! Making changes in your diet can also help you lose weight – another big risk factor of heart problems.

Exercise: Thanks to the car, TV & computers we are now becoming more and more sedentary. Most of us are exercising less than even the Government guidelines!! We’ve all heard the warnings of doing little exercise and becoming inactive is dangerous not only to our heart but in lots of other ways to the body so I am not going to apologise for repeating that we should be trying to exercise 3-5 times a week at a moderate to intense level. If needs be start by just going for a walk 30 minutes will be a step in the right direction!

Weight: Excess weight is a strain on the heart. You don’t need scales, just do the LIMBO test – LOOK IN MIRROR BE ‘ONEST! What is even better than than anything is your waist measurement, because fat around the middle is very dangerous as I have spoken about in my blog on visceral fat increasing the risk of diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Your Numbers: The big risk factors for heart attacks are raised blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. Usually these don’t cause any symptoms, so you feel them when they occur – silent killers! Because these are so powerful in causing heart attacks it is vital you get your GP to check these and give results for you to monitor and adjust your lifestyle to reduce them if needs be, exercise is proven for reducing them.

Finally: If anyone in your family has had a heart attack, you may be at increased risk. Be very wary if any blood relative has had a heart attack under the age of 60, especially if anyone has died from a heart attack.

If you want any further help with information on correct diet and exercise for medical conditions then just drop us a line.

Here we are week 2 of the ab challenge underway, been struggling to fight the sugar cravings a bit for last couple of day as been on ‘low carb days’ however the coconut oil & cinnaman has helped knock them on the head!!

Feel leaner even since the weekend and the one thing I must say is that energy levels not effected in the slightest, training has been good since the weekend and my 6,12,24 workout on the legs which I posted on my facebook page.

I am still foloowing the 6 week cardio-strength & metabolic conditioning programme I wrote along side this challenge and fingers crossed the finished pics will prove it was worth the hard work and determination to succeed.

I have posted my latest training clips on the site under the training videos http://www.bsimplyhealthandfitness.co.uk/personal-training/training-videos/ for you guys to see what I have been up to.

Will catch up with you later in the week for further update on progress

Matt